VCC101H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Impasto, Li Hongzhang, Art Museum
22 Jan 2018
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Introduction to visual culture lecture 2: seeing and describing images. I. e. what we get out of it based on presentation interpretation and context is different for every viewer: try to find why image has the effect it has over us. "i want the painting [vermeer] and only the painting to direct my thoughts: knew nothing about vermeer"s life, his intentions, the subject, etc, building on personal experience, trying to figure out what painting captures her attention. Literary description of/commentary on visual work of art: e. g. poems on pieter brughel"s landscape with the fall of icarus by w. h. Carlos williams: what the last three readings are (hoostvedt, wue, johnson) Looking at development of photography, especially in china, especially portraits of officials. Ellen h. johnson"s "diebekorn"s woman by a large window" Looking at abstraction with diebenkorn and how nature figures into that: ho(cid:449)e(cid:448)er, a(cid:271)stra(cid:272)tio(cid:374) does(cid:374)"t really (cid:373)ea(cid:374) a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g at all.
